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ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship

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2025 Call for Nominations

Nominations are open until 3:00 pm ET on June 3, 2025.

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About the Fellowship

The overall purpose of the ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship is to provide talented, early-career health science scholars in emergency medicine with the opportunity to experience and participate in evidence-based healthcare or public health studies that improve the care and access to care of patients in domestic and global health care systems. This program is supported through an endowment from the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Diplomates or Active Candidates for Certification by ABEM, who hold non-tenured faculty positions in any university, are eligible for the program.

Fellows

Current Fellow

2023-2025 ABEM Fellow

Dr. Gettel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a Clinical Investigator at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). He also serves as the Co-Director of the Yale Emergency Scholars Fellowship. Dr. Gettel’s research aims to advance the understanding of emergency department care transitions in the growing geriatric population through the identification and development of patient- and caregiver-reported outcome measures and then to design, implement, and validate innovative care transition strategies and interventions to improve clinical outcomes. At CORE, he works to develop the next generation of performance measures across multiple care settings. Dr. Gettel has led work with the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians respectively addressing fundamental emergency workforce topics and developing innovative models to improve quality measure reporting within the specialty.

Dr. Gettel received a BS from Elizabethtown College and an MD from Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. He completed residency in Emergency Medicine at Brown University followed by a health services research and policy fellowship in the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University.

Previous Fellows

2022-2024 ABEM Fellow

Dr. Rublee is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health. She serves as Director of Graduate Medical Education with the Climate and Health Program through the School of Medicine.

Dr. Rublee’s research addresses the climate crisis through health policy and evidence-informed practice so that during and after extreme weather events, patients have access to high quality health care and patients and employees remain safe. Her work has revealed significant opportunity globally to develop climate resilient emergency care systems to protect the most vulnerable. She has been a national and international leader in advocating for physician engagement in communicating climate and health with public audiences and diverse sectors with professional organizations and government agencies. She has led workshops for health professionals in low-, middle-, and high-income settings and is teaching the next generation of physicians about climate solutions as health and equity solutions. She was faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she was co-instructor for the Global Environmental Health course, and served as a steering committee representative to The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. She also served as Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Climate Change and Health Interest Group and on the Board of Directors for Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action.

Dr. Rublee received a MD/MPH dual degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University followed by a one-year Climate Change and Health Science Policy Fellowship at the University of Colorado.

2021-2023 ABEM Fellow
2019-2021 ABEM Fellow
2017-2019 ABEM Fellow
Instructor in Emergency Medicine Brigham and Women’s HospitalHarvard Medical School

Hanni Stoklosa is the Executive Director of HEAL Trafficking, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. She is Director of the Global Women’s Health Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Connors Center. Dr. Stoklosa is an internationally-recognized expert, advocate, researcher, and speaker on the wellbeing of trafficking survivors in the U.S. and internationally through a public health lens. She has advised the United Nations, International Organization for Migration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of State, and the National Academy of Medicine on issues of human trafficking and testified as an expert witness multiple times before the U.S. Congress. Moreover, she has conducted research on trafficking and persons facing the most significant social, economic, and health challenges in a diversity of settings including Australia, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Liberia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, South Sudan, Taiwan, and Thailand. Among other accolades, Dr. Stoklosa has most recently been honored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health Emerging Leader award and the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Faculty Community Service award for her tireless efforts to advance the public health response to trafficking. Her anti-trafficking work has been featured by the New York Times, National Public Radio, Glamour, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, STAT News, and Marketplace. Dr. Stoklosa published the first textbook addressing the public health response to trafficking, “Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue, A Paradigm Expansion in the United States.”

Description

The ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship is awarded for a two-year period. During this time, the fellow is expected to continue to work at their primary academic/research post, while being assigned to a health- and medicine-related board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies). The boards are:

  • Children, Youth, and Families,
  • Food and Nutrition,
  • Global Health,
  • Health Care Services,
  • Health Sciences Policy, and
  • Population Health and Public Health Practice.

The fellowship requires a 10- to 20-percent commitment of time for two years, and includes attendance at a one-week orientation to health policy, the NAM Annual Meeting in October and the meetings of the assigned board. Domestic travel expenses are covered for participation in approved fellowship activities. Additionally, the fellow will participate actively in the work of an appropriate study committee or roundtable, including contributing to its reports or other products. Studies that would enable the potential for the fellow to contribute to the value of integrating medicine and public health will be identified.

This experience will introduce the ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellow to a variety of experts and perspectives, including legislators, government officials, industry leaders, executives of voluntary health organizations, scientists, and other health professionals. In addition, each fellow will be assigned to an NAM member who will serve as a senior mentor during the two years of the fellowship.

A flexible research grant of $25,000 will be awarded to each ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellow, which will be administered through the appropriate department in the fellow’s home institution to advance the fellow’s professional and academic career. This grant is not intended for use as a salary offset for the fellow, and no indirect costs are allowed.

Program Information

Eligibility & Selection Process

Nominees for the ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship must:

  • Be nominated by a member of the NAM or a board member of the ABEM
  • Be an ABEM Diplomate or meet the emergency medicine credential requirements for board certification
  • Hold an M.D. or D.O.
  • Be two-to-ten years out from completion of post-graduate work
  • Be able to dedicate 10 to 20 percent of time to the fellowship for two years
  • Hold U.S. citizen or permanent resident status at the time of the nomination

A complete nomination packet must be submitted electronically through the online nomination system at https://namfellows.secure-platform.com/submission and will include the following documents:

  • A nomination letter from a member of the NAM or a board member of the ABEM
  • Three (3) letters of reference
  • A supporting letter from the candidate’s department chair, institute director, or equivalent
  • An up-to-date curriculum vitae
  • A brief one-page bio
  • A one-page personal statement that describes the candidate’s reasons for wanting to be a fellow for this particular program at this phase of their career

Nominees will be evaluated by an NAM-appointed committee based on their professional qualifications, scholarship, and quality of professional accomplishments as evidenced through publications and research grants, and relevance of current field expertise to the work of the NAM.

Preference will be given to candidates drawn from the field of Emergency Medicine who have a demonstrated interest in, and focus on, advancing the delivery of emergency care and scholarship related to emergency medicine.

Timeline

Fellowships will be awarded in odd years.

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March 4, 2025

Call for nominations opens

June 3, 2025

Nomination packets are due at 3:00pm ET

July 25, 2025

Awardee is notified

September 9-11, 2025

Fellow orientation week at the NAM is held

October 19-20, 2025

Fellow is introduced to the Membership at the NAM Annual Meeting

Program Administration

Inquiries about the ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship should be directed to:

Yumi Phillips
Senior Program Officer

Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs
National Academy of Medicine
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone: (202) 334-1506

Email: [email protected]